This must all be fake, Yu Zhi thought while lying in bed after everyone left.

Maybe there is some misunderstanding, maybe it was not my senior brother who killed that person?

She began to deceive herself, but even then it was difficult to convince herself.

Silent tears fell, and then she burst into tears. She was about to experience the saddest separation in the world, just like when she lost her mother as a child.

Peking is so big that it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of families at the same time.

Peking was very small, so small that there was no place for him and his senior brother to stay. It was so small that his senior brother was discovered early the next morning.

In fact, it shouldn't have been discovered. Yu Zhi thought about it carefully the night before. If her senior brother hid in the mountains in the south and then escaped secretly, there would still be a chance.

But who would have thought that man was not hiding at all.

The next morning, he walked into the gate of Yu Mansion openly, holding a candy sold by Uncle Wang's family a few blocks away. As soon as he entered Yu Zhi's yard, he was stopped by the police who were guarding there early.

Hearing the noise, the little girl knocked on her door like crazy, and the door lock seemed to be able to sense her despair and broke.

There was a panic outside the yard, and the shouting police officers formed a sharp contrast with the quiet people in the center.

Seeing the girl who just came out of the room, Yu Rui's eyes seemed to light up, filled with tenderness. He smiled and said, "Zhizhi, come here. Senior Brother has something for you."

In the past, whenever Yu Zhi finished practicing, he would say this to her. At that time, she felt extremely happy, but now when she heard these words again, she was left with only endless sadness.

She ran towards her senior brother quickly. The fatigue of several consecutive days had overdrawn her body. The road, which was obviously not far, seemed very long at this moment.

She remembered that she had walked for a long time and even fell several times along the way, but when she looked up, she saw that the man was still looking at her with a smile, as if to encourage her.

By the time Yu Zhi arrived in front of him, the police officer next to him could no longer wait and was shouting that he must be arrested.

That was the first time the man struggled after being captured. He was so strong that even three or four people were unable to pull him away.

Yu Rui broke free but did not run away. He took a few steps forward and came in front of the girl.

He raised his hand and gently wiped the tears from her face. Then he handed the candy he had bought to her and coaxed her, "Zhizhi, don't cry. Senior Brother will be back soon."

The departure meant a separation between life and death, yet he made it sound so light.

Yu Zhi used all her strength, stared at the man in front of her with wide eyes, as if she wanted to carve his appearance into her heart and never forget it.

This person could have easily escaped to a faraway place and no longer been subject to these suffocating rules.

But he didn't. Compared to dying, never seeing his little girl again was obviously more fatal.

So after escaping all night, he chose to find a place to wash off all the filth on his body, and then he came to see her for the last time with a clean face and gifts.

Tell her that you care about her, that you miss her, and that your love is overflowing.

The bustling scene in front of me returned to silence, and the man was no longer seen, but that smile remained in my mind.

Everything in the world seemed to disappear, leaving only the little girl who had cried until she had no tears left, and the candy in her hand that had been squeezed out of shape.

From then on, there was no longer any person named Yu Rui in Peking.

Sometimes the attendants' casual conversations would reach Yu Zhi's ears. They would either describe how brutal the execution scene was that day, or express their regret for the man who died young.

But what can we do? The person is gone, and no matter how much we say, it cannot be brought back.

Every time Yu Zhi heard this, she would be stunned for a while, and it would take her a long time to recover from the delusion.

She began to force herself to forget everything that had happened, forgetting every detail of the past thirteen years, and in the end she lived like a walking corpse.

I can cry and laugh, but I don’t put my heart into it anymore.

Yu Tai did not restrict her freedom from then on, and even allowed her to enter the opera troupe again, but Yu Zhi never stepped out of the gate of Yu Mansion again, imprisoning herself here.

Finally, a month later, on June 24th, it was also Yu Rui's birthday.

The kitchen was empty in the afternoon. The little girl sat by the stove, leaning on it, and slowly placed the knife on her wrist.

With force, blood gushed out, staining the white dress red.

Frame after frame of pictures emerged in her mind, all of them were Yu Rui, her senior brother.

The light disappeared from her eyes, but the little girl had a relaxed smile on her face that had not been seen for a long time. She murmured softly: "Brother, if you don't come back, then Zhizhi will come to find you."

On June 24, 1942, Yu Zhi of the Yu family committed suicide in the kitchen at the age of 18. It is a pity that she was later listed as one of the four great actresses by later generations.

After the story was over, Mr. Lin seemed to be still immersed in the stories passed down from generation to generation in his childhood, or as if he was dreaming of the only time he saw Yu Zhi on the stage, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

"How many people know about Yu Zhi now? Probably only a handful. That's why I, an old man, reacted so strongly when I saw the little girl just now. They look so similar, not only in name but also in appearance... as if they were cast from the same mold." He paused, then said with relief, "Perhaps I was only five years old at the time, so my memory is vague. There's no such thing as resurrection and reincarnation in this world. Hey, Shi Rui, I know why you're here, but I rarely participate in these matters anymore. In the future, my eldest disciple will contact you. After all, this is the world of you young people."

Shi Rui didn't react at all. The old man thought he was also caught up in the story, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old man, I have to go take a nap. I'm old, so I won't entertain you for now."

The man sat there alone, like a stone sculpture, without moving for a long time.

A handful of cold water splashed on her face, and Yu Zhi forced herself to wake up from her memories.

The corners of the girl's eyes and the tip of her nose were all red, and her eyes even looked a little confused.

The feeling of having the false peace torn apart and the wounds exposed was not pleasant. At least now she did not have the ability to continue talking to Mr. Lin.

He took a deep breath and was about to take out his phone to explain to Shi Rui that he was not feeling well when he saw a message he had received ten minutes ago that he had not had time to check.

【SR: Waiting for you outside the bathroom door.】

Yu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with her, she opened the door.

The next second, she looked directly into the eyes of the man who had been waiting for a long time.

A glance that lasts a thousand years, this is a reunion after more than eighty years, and a gaze between us after more than thirty thousand days of separation.

At that moment, she seemed to be back in the compound, back to the day when her senior brother handed her candy.

Shi Rui seemed a little at a loss, and his high emotional intelligence in the past disappeared without a trace.

There was silence all around. The man opened his lips, but finally made up his mind and said, "Zhizhi... Am I Yu Rui?"